{"product_id":"incidents-in-the-life-of-a-slave-girl-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393614565","title":"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Norton Critical Edition includes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe first edition (1861), with the editors' explanatory annotations, introduction, and glossary of the people of \u003cem\u003eIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThree illustrations.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eKey public statements by Harriet Jacobs, William C. Nell, the Reverend Francis J. Grimke, and others.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA rich selection of correspondence by Harriet Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child, and John Greenleaf Whittier, suggesting \u003cem\u003eIncidents\u003c\/em\u003e's initial reception.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTen major critical essays, six of them new to the Second Edition.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Series\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJacobs, Harriet:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eHarriet Jacobs\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Edenton, North Carolina, in 1813, to slave parents. \u003cem\u003eIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl\u003c\/em\u003e, the first full-length narrative written by a former slave woman in America, is a record of events and experiences of slavery seen through the eyes of the young Harriet during the years she lived in captivity in Edenton, through her escape, when she becomes a fugitive in the North at age twenty-nine, and concluding soon after a northern white friend buys her freedom in 1852.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFoster, Frances Smith:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eFrances Smith Foster\u003c\/strong\u003e (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego), Editor, \u003cem\u003eThe Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance\u003c\/em\u003e; Co-Editor, \u003cem\u003eThe Literature of Slavery and Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e. Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies, Emory University. Author of \u003cem\u003e\"Til Death or Distance Do Us Part\" Love and Marriage in African America\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eWritten by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eWitnessing Slavery: The Development of the Antebellum Slave Narrative\u003c\/em\u003e. Co-editor of the \u003cem\u003eOxford Companion to African American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e and Harriet Jacobs's \u003cem\u003eIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl\u003c\/em\u003e. Editor of several works, including \u003cem\u003eLove and Marriage in Early African America\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eMinnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper\u003c\/em\u003e; Elizabeth Keckley's \u003cem\u003eBehind the Scenes\u003c\/em\u003e; and the Norton Critical Edition of Jacobs's \u003cem\u003eIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460183658770,"sku":"9780393614565","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_facbbac0-c206-4318-9baf-4e6f12dac248.jpg?v=1730032997","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/incidents-in-the-life-of-a-slave-girl-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393614565","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}